Vinny Golia and Ken Filiano: Elongation

Vinny Golia and Ken Filiano engage in an extended musical dialogue on the stimulating Elongation. Multi-instrumentalist Golia, whose command of an array of wind instruments is unparalleled, is heard here on saxello, sopranino and tenor saxes, bass clarinet, flutes from Turkey (ney) and Bulgaria (kaval), and djura gaida, a Bulgarian bagpipe. His link with bassist Filiano goes back to the middle Eighties, and the two have recorded together on dozens of projects since then, including a previous duo album in 1996, The Art Of Negotiation for CIMP Records. Those years of collaboration pay off here as Golia and Filiano match wits with breathtaking speed and bravura. A moment by moment recap of their endeavors is pointless, as well as impossible. Suffice it to note that Elongation is a fervent and inspired 62 minutes of bold duets, enlivened by Golia’s ongoing sonic explorations of instruments from all the cultures of the world. The recording was made in 2009, the CD was issued in 2016, but I just ran across this in a pile of review discs. Good taste is timeless, right?
pfMENTUM CD098/Ninewinds; Vinny Golia (djura gaida [Bulgarian bagpipe], saxello, sop sax, ts, bcl, Turkish ney, kaval) Ken Filiano (b, elec); Valencia, CA, May 19, 2009; Prologue/ Elongation, section A/ Elongation, section B/ Written in H2O/ Elongation, section C/ Your final Phone call arrives for Victoria Galli/ Elongation, section D/ Elongation, section E/ Siri/ Elongation, section F/ Epilogue; 62:53. pfmentum.com